If you have a 100. Watt lamp, about how many photons are emitted per second, assuming the majority of the photons have a wavelength of 549. nm? (1 Watt = 1 J/s or 1 Joule per second) Scientific notation can be used in the following format: 100 would be written as 1e+2.

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If you have a 100. Watt lamp, about how many photons are emitted per second, assuming the majority of the photons have a wavelength of 549. nm? (1 Watt = 1 J/s or 1 Joule per second)

Scientific notation can be used in the following format: 100 would be written as 1e+2.

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